World's end never more hilarious
By Brian McCumsey
Issue date: 11/20/09 Section: Focus
Wow!
"2012" won't win an Academy Award, but it will most likely be one of the most enjoyed movies of the year. Honestly, the end of the world has never been this fun.
Let me get this out of the way right off the bat. The plot for this movie is preposterous. I do not believe the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. As Roger Ebert says, "I'm worried, too. I expect that to be even worse than Y2K."
Even though the film is preposterous and many of the stunts simply impossible, it is fantastically entertaining and a wonderful diversion from everyday life. I love disaster flicks. Watching things go boom, complete and total destruction is really incredibly fun when it isn't actually happening.
Let's talk about the preposterous plot (I'm sure any of you who want to see this movie are extremely concerned about the plot). The movie begins in 2009 where we meet a scientist named Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, "American Gangster," "Inside Man"). Helmsley discovers that the temperature of the Earth's core is increasing rapidly. We fast forward to 2012 where we meet Jackson Curtis (John Cusack, "High Fidelity," "1408"). Curtis has recently gone through a divorce and it is his weekend with the kids. They are going on a camping trip to Yellowstone. While in Yellowstone, Jackson meets a quasi-homeless hippie who has his own radio show where he discusses that the world is going to end because of planetary alignment in the year 2012 . . . that the ancient Mayan culture saw this coming and predicted it long ago. . .
Do you really care about the plot? I am boring myself as I type this.
For those of you who care about the plot-here is a more simplified version: We learn that 2012 is going to be the end of the word. Things go boom.
As I stated before, disaster flicks are great fun. This isn't just a disaster movie; it is the granddaddy of all disaster flicks. The sequence where Los Angeles is destroyed while our hero and his family fly their small plane through the destruction is one of the most visually impressive action sequences I have ever witnessed.
"2012" won't win an Academy Award, but it will most likely be one of the most enjoyed movies of the year. Honestly, the end of the world has never been this fun.
Let me get this out of the way right off the bat. The plot for this movie is preposterous. I do not believe the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. As Roger Ebert says, "I'm worried, too. I expect that to be even worse than Y2K."
Even though the film is preposterous and many of the stunts simply impossible, it is fantastically entertaining and a wonderful diversion from everyday life. I love disaster flicks. Watching things go boom, complete and total destruction is really incredibly fun when it isn't actually happening.
Let's talk about the preposterous plot (I'm sure any of you who want to see this movie are extremely concerned about the plot). The movie begins in 2009 where we meet a scientist named Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, "American Gangster," "Inside Man"). Helmsley discovers that the temperature of the Earth's core is increasing rapidly. We fast forward to 2012 where we meet Jackson Curtis (John Cusack, "High Fidelity," "1408"). Curtis has recently gone through a divorce and it is his weekend with the kids. They are going on a camping trip to Yellowstone. While in Yellowstone, Jackson meets a quasi-homeless hippie who has his own radio show where he discusses that the world is going to end because of planetary alignment in the year 2012 . . . that the ancient Mayan culture saw this coming and predicted it long ago. . .
Do you really care about the plot? I am boring myself as I type this.
For those of you who care about the plot-here is a more simplified version: We learn that 2012 is going to be the end of the word. Things go boom.
As I stated before, disaster flicks are great fun. This isn't just a disaster movie; it is the granddaddy of all disaster flicks. The sequence where Los Angeles is destroyed while our hero and his family fly their small plane through the destruction is one of the most visually impressive action sequences I have ever witnessed.
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